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gnome-power-manager package

[hardy] screen lights up when lid is closed

Bug #187524 reported by Bogdan Butnaru
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop, running Ubuntu Hardy (up to date). I have set it to not hibernate/standby when I close the lid, since I often leave it on at night to do stuff.

When I close the lid, the back light turns off for a couple of seconds, then it turns on again. I think it remains like this forever, but I'm not sure since it's only visible at night, and I tend to fall asleep...

This happens with the "close lid" action set to either "do nothing" or "blank screen". It happens every time. Where do I look for clues?

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingACPI

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please attach the resulting log file of: gnome-power-bugreport.sh &> gpm.log to the report? You might also want to take a look to the Debugging instructions located at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager for submit any other logs related to your problem.Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote :

Here it is.

As far as I can tell, there's some kind of event that's triggered after the lid is closed that lights up the screen. If I turn the screen off using xset with a delay (something like "sleep 5; xset dpms force off") and close the screen before the delay is up, it stays off.

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Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote :

I've done some more checking, it doesn't seem to happen anymore.

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

Closing as submitter says that it no longer occurs. Thank you for reporting this! Ted.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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